Episode · Behind the Bastards · 2021-02-04
Books mentioned on Behind the Insurrections - The Business Plot: When Rich Fascists Almost Took Over America
In the early 1930s a consortium of America's wealthiest men conspires to overthrow President Roosevelt and institute a fascist state. This is the story of how they almost succeeded.
Robert Evans discussed The Glory and the Dream by William Manchester and War Is a Racket by Smedley Butler.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Glory and the Dream
Discussed“William Manchester in his book, The Glory in the Dream, describes the fear which upper class Americans had of a lowerass revolt in the months before Roosevelt's inauguration”
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War Is a Racket
War Is a Racket is a sharp, compact 1933 critique of military intervention and financial profiteering written by Major General Smedley D.
Discussed“Um in 1935 he publishes a short book based on a series of speeches he deliver he starts traveling around the country delivering speeches a speech titled War is a Racket.”
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